I'm down here. I'm contemplating getting a 3ware and going the hardware route. I've had pretty horrid experience with Highpoint support (non-existent) and the Marvell controllers seem to be dysfunctional. Vendor who sold me the card could not provide any drivers or firmware updates, so this is my only possible path to a solution using this type of controller - the kernel patch(es).
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I'm down here. I'm contemplating getting a 3ware and going the hardware route. I've had pretty horrid experience with Highpoint support (non-existent) and the Marvell controllers seem to be dysfunctional. Vendor who sold me the card could not provide any drivers or firmware updates, so this is my only possible path to a solution using this type of controller - the kernel patch(es).
Thanks.